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What's the most underrated thing about Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
558
Elementary
DISTRICT 403 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRING LAKE PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 273333001467
Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion
880 OSBORNE RD NE, FRIDLEY, MN 55432 · (763) 600-5800 · Anoka County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL558 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
223 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 119 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 131 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (119) is 42% larger than its 4th grade class (84).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within SPRING LAKE PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
34.5%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
41.5%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.6%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion
Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion's state test result (37.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion this school | 558 | 40.0% | 37.1% |
| Adams Magnet Elementary SAINT PAUL | 605 | 40.5% | 41.2% |
| Le Center Pre K-8 LE CENTER | 385 | 39.0% | 44.5% |
| RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL RICHFIELD | 529 | 45.7% | 39.2% |
| MELROSE ELEMENTARY MELROSE | 512 | 48.0% | 42.2% |
| SIBLEY EAST-GAYLORD ELEMENTARY GAYLORD | 503 | 43.5% | 41.7% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Anoka County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.1% | #580 of 844 | #33 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #558 of 844 | #34 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #654 of 844 | #36 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 558 | #214 of 1,130 | #20 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #611 of 769 | #33 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.4% | #274 of 796 | #25 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.0% | #503 of 942 | #30 of 50 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.6% | #310 of 499 | #19 of 27 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
558
+24 (+4%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 552
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 558 | 35.6 | 15.7:1 | 40% (223) |
| 2023-24 | 555 | 31 | 17.9:1 | 40% (220) |
| 2022-23 | 542 | 30.9 | 17.6:1 | 37% (200) |
| 2020-21 | 534 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 22% (120) |
| 2017-18 | 624 | 33.7 | 18.5:1 | 28% (173) |
| 2015-16 | 544 | 31 | 17.6:1 | 28% (154) |
| 2010-11 | 356 | 27 | 13.2:1 | 55% (195) |
| 2000-01 | 500 | 28 | 17.9:1 | 29% (147) |
| 1990-91 | 552 | 29 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (624 to 558); teachers up 6% (33.7 to 35.6).
About Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion
Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in FRIDLEY, Minnesota. The school's enrollment of 558 students covers kindergarten through 4. Enrollment is 62% higher than the average for elementary schools in Minnesota, which is about 344.
SPRING LAKE PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS has a total of 12 schools and 6,113 students, Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion among them.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion, at 52%. Smaller groups are 35% White, 6% multiracial, and 5% Black. For comparison, the population of Anoka County is roughly 6% Hispanic. Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion's diversity index is 60%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reported 35.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 15.7:1. That is 2.0 students per teacher above the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 40%. For comparison, public schools in Anoka County average 42%.
allk12 grades Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion a C-. The grade compares the school only with Minnesota public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion falls in the middle 80% of Minnesota schools: 37.1% actual against 43.6% predicted.
Anoka County has about 370,349 residents, and the median household income is $101,869, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. In all, Anoka County has 145 public schools and roughly 59,656 students.
The school nearest to Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion is SPRING LAKE PARK SENIOR HIGH, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion is 3rd among 5 schools close by.
Locale data from NCES put Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment is up 4% from 2020-21, when Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion had 534 students, to 2024-25, when it had 558.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Anoka County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
370,349
Census ACS
Median income
$101,869
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
145
59,656 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SPRING LAKE PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- SPRING LAKE PARK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,909 students
- Westwood Intermediate & Middle SchMiddle · 1,646 students
- Centerview ElementaryElementary · 685 students
- Park Terrace ElementaryElementary · 532 students
- NORTHPOINT ELEMENTARYElementary · 488 students
- EARLY EDUCATIONElementary · 123 students
Other schools in FRIDLEY
- Fridley Senior HighHigh · 796 students
- Fridley MiddleMiddle · 694 students
- Stevenson ElementaryElementary · 459 students
- North Park School for InnovationElementary · 433 students
- Hayes ElementaryElementary · 432 students
- Metro Heights AcademyHigh · 198 students
Nearby schools
- SPRING LAKE PARK SENIOR HIGH0.4 mi · 1,909
- Spring Lake Park High School ALP0.4 mi · 64
- SLP Schools Online Secondary0.4 mi · 43
- Unity Program - PHP0.4 mi · 2
- Secondary Lighthouse0.4 mi · 34
- Elementary Lighthouse0.4 mi · 29
Frequently asked questions
About Woodcrest El. Spanish ImmersionHow many students attend Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion?
Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion enrolls approximately 558 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion serve?
Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion serves grades KG-04.
How many teachers does Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion have?
Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
How diverse is Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion?
Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion reports a student body of 35% White, 52% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion?
Woodcrest El. Spanish Immersion is overseen by SPRING LAKE PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Anoka County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.